Thursday, July 28, 2011

HCFI Update: Asthma linked to smoking



Active smoking increases the risk of developing asthma, said Padma Shri & Dr. B.C. Roy National Awardee, Dr. KK Aggarwal, President, Heart Care Foundation of India and MTNL Perfect Health Mela.

Dr. Aggarwal said that adolescents who smoke more than 300 cigarettes a year are at 4 times the risk of developing asthma compared to their non-smoking peers. Active smoking is strongly associated with high incidence of asthma between ages 17 to 33.

It is also seen that those children who develop asthma by age 7, usually go in remission but relapse by age 33 if they smoke.

Secondhand smoking is also associated with developing asthma in early life, especially, if the mother is a smoker. Many studies have shown that children of smoking mothers are two times are more likely to develop asthma than children of non-smoking mothers.

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